G5
When I was young and went to school 
                      D5
They taught me how to write 

To take the chalk and make a mark 
                      G5
And hope it turns out right 
 
Well that's the way it is with love 
             G5     C5
And what you did to me 
                    G5
I wrote it so you'd know 
           D5             G5
That I was yours eternal-ly. 
 
CHORUS 
G5
But my tears have washed I love you 
          D5
>From the Blackboard of my heart 

It's too late to clean the slate 
                 G5
And make another start 

I'm satisfied the way things are 
               G5    C5
Although we're far a-part 
                     G5
My tears have washed I love you from 
    D5                G5
The Blackboard of my heart. 
 
If you'd been true the way you should 
And not have gone astray 
These tears would not have fallen down 
And washed the words away 
No need to talk, 'cause if the chalk 
Should write those words again 
It will be for someone else 
Not things that might have been. 
 
CHORUS